Beth Bentley

Beth Bentley

Beth Singer Bentley (October 7, 1921 – February 11, 2021) was an American poet. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and received her BA and MFA from the University of Michigan, where her fiction won the Hopwood Award. She settled in Seattle and was married to poet Nelson Bentley, a professor at the University of Washington, from 1952 until his death in 1990. Her poems appeared in a number of magazines and journals including Poetry, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. She published two full-length collections of poems, both with Ohio University Press: Phone Calls From the Dead in 1970 and Country of Resemblances in 1976. She also published several chapbooks and edited a selection of the poetry of Hazel Hall. Her poem "Northern Idylls" was included in The Best American Poetry 1989. Bentley died in February 2021 at the age of 99.

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